#a good portrayal of DID

[thatonebirdwrites]

Shattered is finally finished. This story is incredibly personal for me.

I wrote this story because I have DID (and several other chronic conditions that makes navigating it even more difficult).

I wrote this story because I am tired of stories that villianize those with DID. No, most people with DID are not serial killers. And yet so much media paints a horrific view of it that is mired in falsehoods and misinformation. The stigma against DID is painful and isolates.

I want a good portrayal of DID. One that really digs into what it is actually like, how healing may go, and ways to navigate it.

Stories like that are so incredibly rare, so I decided I'll write it myself. I used a fantastical setting -- the Supergirl universe -- to give myself some space so it wouldn't completely overwhelm me.

I also wanted to write about what a healing journey looks like, and how we cannot heal without the love and support of our chosen family and community. Healing is not a solitary thing. It's a communal action.

We have to choose to heal.

In this story, Lena has DID, where Lex did horrible things to her when she was a child. The fic explores her and her alters, how they cope, what exactly Lex did, how hard it can be to learn who all the alters are and their needs, and the healing journey Lena and her alters walk.

I also cover Kara, who as an alien her psyche differs from humans. I explore how she ends up splitting herself in order to fit in with humans and to keep her alien core self safe. How absorbing Red Daughter causes a shake-up in her system, and she has to engage in mind-healing to integrate Red Daughter in a healthier way.

I cover Sam, who is a singlet -- she does not have DID. Instead, her story digs into being a homeless, pregnant teen and how she overcame that. How she built up a chosen family and healed from that. It also digs into how the worldkiller crisis impacted her, and how she heals from that through the help of her loved ones and community.

All three have different traumas but interwoven healing journeys.

This story is me shouting to the world: we are not evil. We are people who have great trauma. We are worthy of care and acceptance. We are trying our best to find healthy ways to cope and heal, and we will mess up just like anyone else but repair is possible. Healing is possible. When we care for one another, support one another, we can heal.

It's also me exploring how I approach my own healing journey. In the end-notes I provide detailed explanations about DID, about alters, about different methods of healing, about integration (and how it's a personal choice whether to integrate or not).

I did this so people could at least get a glimpse into the truth of what living with it is like. I shared all I did so that understanding can be bridged and perhaps care built up.

Comments blew me away as many shared how it's been helping them heal too.

In the end, that's all I ever wanted.

If something I wrote brought healing and hope to another? Then I consider my job done.

The stories we tell matter. How we tell them matter. Sharing them matters.

You are not alone. No matter what you face. No matter what hardship or illness it is -- you are not alone. Others are out there that have or still face it. You are worthy of care and acceptance and community.

Yes, healing is so very hard at times. You will fuck up. We all fuck up at times, but that's part of healing. We engage in repair once we are in a mental state to do it in a healthy way, and we choose to heal and move forward.

Because that is how we grow. We don't grow by experiencing trauma.

We grow from choosing to heal and then acting on that decision to heal.

So remember that, and remember you deserve love and care too. Be safe, and happy reading.

[mayasdeluca]

MAYA AND MASON STATION 19: 7x07 'Give It All'

[andthendk]

some practice doodles for my next post - simplifying characters do not come easy 😭🫠 and yes I'm an advocate for 💜soft grunge/ goth/ graceful goddess/ disney princess 💜 Raven and everything in between because shoving her into one category is lazy.

[wakeywakeyjakey]

I LOVE BruHarvey/TwoBats but I struggle to get into reading it because it feels like 90% of the fanfiction for this ship is Bruce trying to reform him, “fix” him, cure him, etc. It’s Bruce being like “it’s okay, even though half of you is an evil monster I still love the other half!” It’s definitely because I have DID myself but like—where’s the TwoBats where Bruce actually loves and accepts Harv? Is committed to ALL parts of him, not just the part he deems good? I’d much rather read about Bruce’s journey to understand and love him on a deeper level (+ that journey with mental health/DID awareness) than read about him trying to get rid of Harv once and for all.

[blueskittlesart]

atla live action generally sucks for all the reasons everyone is saying it sucks and i am in no way a live action remake promoter but one thing i will say. they Get the fire siblings. they understand.

[nataref]

Anya is the actual protagonist of mouthwashing and I think she should be legally allowed to shoot any man she wants at any time and also should be given a nobel peace prize and $10 trillion. Also fuck Curly for being an abuse apologist and I want to throw jimmy directly into the sun

[clegfly]

Getting REAL sick and tired of how omori TikTok views sunny.

Like, they view any scene of him being emotionally vulnerable, affectionate, or even just making an expression outside of just being completely neutral as “mischaracterised”. He’s not some cool, stoic, unwavering badass, he is a traumatised teenager. Don’t cry whenever he dares to give his friend a hug or (god forbid) be SAD about something??? Isn’t like. Part of the point of his development about him allowing himself to break down the repressive walls he built when he shut himself in? And being able to rely on his real friends instead of imaginary versions? And isn’t the game like. Meant to SHOW that he still cares about them despite isolating himself?

It’s really stupid to get mad at a character like that showing emotion or affection personally, especially since he’s not used to expressing it properly after so long. But that’s just me

[fyreinhell]

everytime i look in the lilith tag I see so much hate and antagonism for her, like my god. we barely know much about her but some people are just desperate to hate on her while woobifying male characters and I can think of one word why.

[illiana-mystery]

This scene is breathtaking...

[antirepurp]

i keep finding fascination in the way maria is portrayed in-universe and also in meta sense, especially the latter, because so often she gets depicted as a kind of saint or an angel or god forbid a martyr, and the palatable things about her like her kindness and "inherent" goodness get focused on. it makes her character less about who she was and more about her death i think, and i get it she wasn't intended to be much more than that. her purpose was to be shadow's driving motivation in sa2 and that's fine sometimes you need characters like that when you're telling a story. but in the wider sense it becomes kind of twisted.

like you're a terminally ill teenager. you've been quarantined onto a space ship to buy you some time, and you're surrounded by people who coddle you and tell you not to do things and have your blood taken and shit. whatever normalcy you used to have is long gone and every day you come to better terms with your own mortality, or you don't think about it, whatever gets you through. you have good days when you almost feel like there's nothing wrong with you, and days when you can't get out of bed and your body aches and you feel like today might be the day you finally die

you are kind. you've been as good of a person as a child could have been so far. but you're also tired and angry and frustrated and bored. you have barely any meaningful social connections outside of your grandfather, and maybe one or two kids you run into on occasion who are younger than you and could never truly process the kind of life you're living. you are 16 and living in a hospital gown, sick of being treated like inspiration porn when you do normal things without showing your pain. you are the furthest thing from an angel. you don't want to be seen as anything comparable to an angel

you are kind and there's so much love in your heart, enough that you take a bullet for the brother who was created for you. but would you have done it if you had known how much it were to strip you from your humanity down the line?

[bauresurrected]

characters you will bring to the cm fandom (i am hypnotizing you) (maybe some people write these that i follow and if that's you come at me)

rossi

morgan

gideon

luke

TARA. by god. please.

alex

kate

literally any of the bau i don't care if people are already writing them

stephen walker

barnes

strauss

JACK, HENRY, MICHAEL?

will

jordan

your ocs.

[sketchingstars03]

anyone else annoyed with portrayals that make Nm and the Bad Sanses and Error out to be “actually innocent uwu guys who aren’t actually in the wrong bc they’re traumatized” and make Ink and Dream out to be “actually the real bad guys actually cuz umm Ink soulless and Dream no care abt his brother actually”?

Like people probably think it’s subversive or something when tbh it’s really not, at least not anymore. Maybe at one point it wasn’t a very popular interpretation of those guys (to have them be The Real Victims Actually) but, it sure is popular nowadays.

Like I’m not against sympathetic portrayals of the bad guys or anything (I’m literally a For The Forgotten Ones enjoyer)

but like, idk it gets on my nerves a bit when people try to make them Not The Bad Ones Actually They Did No Wrong Ever™️. Especially when it’s at the expense of the Star Sanses (Ink, Dream, and sometimes even Blue)’s characters.

It just feels like villainizing the Stars (especially Ink and Dream) for no reason other than to gesture at a “”subversive and interesting”” story, making these interpretations out to be more complex than they actually are.

[ferronickel]

Hmm... Jackel god of death claiming to be Sutekh (Set) vs Fennec fox god of storms claiming to be Anpu (Anubis). Maybe they're just trading places for a bit?

Wasn't expecting Doctor Who and @godslavecomic to have this particular overlap.

[paarthursass]

"I can't believe the fallout tv show made the brotherhood the good guys" it did not. Like I get being wary because Bethesda loves to go "woah cool power armor" but the Brotherhood are not the good guys in this show.

We are shown they are a cult in episode 1. Episode 2 we see the kind of man who becomes a Knight in the Brotherhood. Episode 7 Thaddeus mentions how the Brotherhood will kill him for being a ghoul, which Lucy responds to with confusion "Aren't they the good guys?" and Maximus winces and gives a "It's complicated" in return. Episode 8, when Maximus expresses his desire to leave, Dane looks on him with pity and says "There's no leaving the Brotherhood."

And these are just the moments I remember off the top of my head! I'm sure there are more. But the point being: the show is taking deliberate steps to showcase the Brotherhood as not just corrupt, but fundamentally flawed in its basic ideology. Even my parents, who know nothing about Fallout lore, were able to go "Oh, the Brotherhood is NOT a good institution" after watching just episode 1.

[randomjreader]

To think, everyone was so concerned about the casting because Taylor and Nicholas were too old or "bro-like" but like LOOK AT THIS

[beastsovrevelation]

The Hell now, I'm drooling over the Good Omens version of Archangel Michael, too?..

The tag's about Lady Crowley, not myself, but still...

I mean..

She does seem like she'd take and rail you.